Then, the recognition usually hits around the time of the song’s much-more-familiar chorus: 50), buoyed by a TikTok format that involves users texting the song’s (relatively obscure) opening lyrics to unaware friends, and seeing how long it takes for them to realize they’re being pranked:Īnd you said you had to get your laundry cleaned In the past month, the song’s broken into Spotify’s Top 200 and Apple Music’s Top 100 charts, and also broke Billboard‘s Digital Song Sales chart for the first time (at No. 5 peak, was the only Top 10 hit of his career. The latest song to get a massive jolt from TikTok is Matthew Wilder’s 1983 bouncey, reggae-inflected pop-rock hit “Break My Stride,” which at its No. It’s not uncommon for time-honored classics to also have stints as TikTok phenomena - see the mashup between Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” and Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” that took off a few months ago - but decades-old one-hit wonders are another story. The video was created by TikTok user as part of an ongoing memetic interest in “Break My Stride” among the platform’s userbase.Tee Grizzley Talks Becoming Rap's Martin Scorsese With New Project 'Chapters of the Trenches' Predictably, before verifying the authenticity of the video, QAnon devotees rushed to claim it was a “ 4D chess move” on the part of Trump:Īlthough the video of Trump supposedly encoding “Break My Stride” lyrics into his tweets was amusing, it was not organic or planned. Most TikTok users were aware the song was sweeping that platform in the form of memes and pranks, but Twitter users not acquainted with TikTok had no such context, making them far likelier to assume the clip was based on an authentic set of Trump’s tweets. The confusion about whether the tweets were real were likely not intentional instead, it was introduced by the platform move. People across the world are texting friends, family and partners the lyrics to Wilder’s tune in this viral trend.īut they’re trying to trick the other person into believing it’s a normal conversation - before they realise it’s actually song lyrics. It doesn’t take too long for the internet to find a new trend - and this time it includes Matthew Wilder’s hit song ‘Break My Stride’. Have you received a text from a friend telling you they’ve had the ‘strangest dream’? Don’t be fooled – it’s all part of a new viral trend which is sweeping the internet… It wasn’t clear precisely exactly when first shared the clip, but on January 14 2020, covered a popular trend on the platform TikTok involving the song “Break My Stride.” In “The viral ‘Break My Stride’ lyrics TikTok game explained,” the site explained: The video was labeled as originating on TikTok via user gonna leave this here #fyp ♬ BREAK MY STRIDE – kierlarue So what was going on? As it turns out, part of the confusion involved a popular meme moving from one platform to another, where readers on the first platform recognize it immediately, but those on the second might not understand the context. However, in the “Break My Stride” video’s thumbnail, Trump’s tweet began: “Last night Bernie was shut out again.” In the real tweet, he wrote: “… and Bernie is shut out again.” The basis of the tweet seemed to be the same, with the first few letters edited. Those who visited Trump’s Twitter timeline might have noticed that some of the tweets seemed to really be there, such as one in the thumbnail where he referenced Bernie Sanders being “shut out” by Democrats: Twitter users in the thread speculated about whether the tweets were real, a coincidence, evidence we live in a simulation, or something else.
Advertisements On January 18 2020, Twitter users shared the following video that purportedly showed a screenshot of United States President Donald Trump’s recent tweets - which taken together, formed the lyrics to “Break My Stride,” a 1983 pop song:
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